Integrity Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 WOSSUP MY HOMIESt tablet posting from school so let's cut to it WHAT IS DUOLINGO? duolingo is a free online language learning program that owns shit and you should be a member of it. it's very eurocentric presently but they're slowly diversifying, the content is mostly (entirely?) user made so somebody needs to have a wild hair to start a program. the languages that exist include spanish, french, geman, danish, swedish, irish, portuguese, italian, and probably some i can't remember. turkish and polish and russian and others are en route! there's also an app on your preferred app/play store, but i recommend checking the site as well since there's a lot of explanatory text before each lesson that isn't included in the (at least apple) app for some reason. WHAT DO I DO? do a lesson a day, do ten lessons a day, hell who cares! plug away at one language or five! use the "english for native x speakers" programs if english isn't your native language! (note: cannot vouch for quality of these) they're just grammar/vocab lessons but if you get deeper you can start trying (badly) to translate wikipedia articles and shit, it's really cool! WHY THIS THREAD? three reasons: 1: we can all follow each other and keep each other motivated and laugh at integrity dipping his toes into everything! 2: there are native/fluent speakers of tons of languages on this site, let's make em work! taking the german course and something just doesn't make sense? post about it and i'll make ike-mike answer if i can't! 3: learning new languages fucking owns even if you only learn a bit and i think everybody should do it! nobody will be surprised to learn that i am RNIntegrity and that i would be happy to be anybody's support program or study buddy because learning languages is like the best thing ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peener weener Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 (edited) I am fluent in two languages and would like to learn a million languages but I don't think there are so many languages out there, Billy Mays! What do I do?! Edited January 12, 2015 by fuccboi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted January 12, 2015 Author Share Posted January 12, 2015 start working, i'm sure if you count programming languages you can come up with something like a million! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freohr Datia Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Even more nobodies would be even less surprised that my account there is FreohrDatia~ Learn Irish with meeeee \o/ or just whatever you want to learn I can't learn a million languages because I'm not that good I can only focus on one at a time ;u; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tryhard Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 (edited) i'm shit at languages (sans programming languages) Edited January 12, 2015 by Tryhard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Silver Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 I actually reccomend this. My French teacher actually has my class, myself included, using Duolingo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandragon Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Im too racist to learn other languages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klokinator Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 If immortality ever comes to fruition, you bet your left nut I'll take up Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and German. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacLovin Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Even though I can't find the ones I need to learn, I'll do Japanese, Korean, and Chinese just to be able to talk to more Asians irl! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junk Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 I tried portuguese and German. Portuguese was pretty fun but hard to understand what they were saying at times. Didn't really enjoy German tbh. Especially constantly having to hold the shift key constantly to capitalize those nouns. I forgot about it though, need to commit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kysafen Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Why the hell not. Let's make a poll first and vote on what language we're going to do, to see what language (read: Japanese) most of us are going to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peener weener Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 i'm doing portuguese you dirty weeb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junk Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Same here lol. Although if they ever added a japanese section I would probably take it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rapier Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Sounds good. When my internet connection gets better, I'll try the english course for x speakers, then maybe try out German just out of curiosity while Japanese isn't available (and my sole reason for learning Japanese is to play the Kiseki series before XSEED takes 15 years to finish translating it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ansem Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 this is fucking awesome holy shit *enlightened* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau of Isaac Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 (edited) I am fluent in two languages and would like to learn a million languages but I don't think there are so many languages out there, Billy Mays! What do I do?! Despair that you can never become the person you want to be and spiral into a life of drug abuse and self-flagellation! And for only three easy payments of 19.99! What how! Edit: Also I thought about getting into Duolingo, but I'm already using Anki and Quizlet. Too much studying with too many programs @__@ Edited January 17, 2015 by Esau of Isaac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted January 17, 2015 Author Share Posted January 17, 2015 post your names and follow me you turdlets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper Knight Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 YES GOOD DUOLINGO I use it for French and it's the best thing ever plus I really like being awarded lingots because they look like rubies eyy. I'm MehKittens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alertcircuit Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 (edited) I can't believe I missed this thread. If you're taking languages at school and you wanna go deeper, this website is an very useful supplementary tool if you work in it enough. I've had it for awhile and it's pretty great. You can learn a lottt from the German course and there's like notes and help sections and stuff it's cool. Edited January 27, 2015 by Alertcircuit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ansem Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 YES GOOD DUOLINGO I use it for French and it's the best thing ever plus I really like being awarded lingots because they look like rubies eyy. I'm MehKittens. Yay for french! I broke my 10 day streak yesterday because college =/ but oh well, will do more today to compensate. nnahiyaan09 btw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specta Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I'm mainly working on Spanish! I just need to be better about meeting my daily goals ;_; Name is theleadinglady for those who want to be language buddies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor Odinson Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Ooh Im gonna sign up after I finish this programming assignment I'm unable to take Italian this semester due to the fact the school's only offering the 6 credit megaclass that covers 2 semesters worth of a normal class's material instead of the normal 3 credit class which annoys the fuck out of me so I'll see if I can keep up my Italian with this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leinex Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I started Duolingo with Portuguese, but I've gotten iffy with it since I found out it was Brazilian and not Continental. (Not that there's anything wrong with Brazilian; I'm just more interested in Continental.) I started with Spanish sometime later, but since I've taken plenty of Spanish courses in school, it usually comes off as a refresher and reviewer thing. I haven't been playing with it much lately, so my tree is nowhere near golden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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